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Market Structure in Services and Market Access in Goods

Francois, Joseph; Wooton, Ian - 2004

We examine interaction between trade in goods and market power in domestic trade and distribution, developing a model that highlights this interaction. Theory points to an expected linkage between service sector competition and goods trade, one supported by econometrics involving import patterns...

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Audiovisual Services Sector: Can the Philippines Follow "Bollywood?"

Lantin, Angelina M.; Pasadilla, Gloria O. - 2005

The paper is an industry study of the audiovisual services sector, specially the film and television industry in the Philippines. It discusses the importance of the sector in the economy and employment, its strengths and weaknesses, regulations that affect it, and the competitive forces that...

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Services Trade and Policy

Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard - 2009

Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature...

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Trade in healthcare and health insurance services: The GATS as a supporting actor (?)

Adlung, Rudolf - 2009

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is broader in policy coverage than conventional trade agreements for … the GATS to date - far fewer than under the GATT in merchandise trade. Also, governments appear to be generally hesitant … for (discriminatory) subsidies than under the GATS. Yet, this is not necessarily true for the obligations assumed by many …

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GATS 2000: Arbeitnehmerinteressen und die Liberalisierung des Dienstleistungshandels

Fritz, Thomas; Scherrer, Christoph - 2002

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SMEs in services trade: A GATS perspective

Adlung, Rudolf; Soprana, Marta - 2012

perspective, under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). Without proposing any priorities, this paper seeks to … disciplines under existing provisions to advancing the liberalization and rule-making mandates of the GATS with an SME focus. …

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Trade in services: IT and task content

Ariu, Andrea; Mion, Giordano - 2010

In this paper we investigate the determinants of the dramatic increase in services tradability focusing on the extensive margin of the phenomenon. We use balance sheet and firm-level service trade information over the period 1995-2005 provided by the National Bank of Belgium and we merge it with...

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Sectoral and plurilateral approaches in services negotiations: Before and after TISA

Nakatomi, Michitaka - 2015

General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) which in turn led to the inception of TISA. It also looks at the options that … GATS Annex approach, i.e. sector by sector, or issue by issue). If a universal agreement, based on reaching critical mass …

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Legal analysis of services and investment in the Cariforum-EC EPA: Lessons for other developing countries

Kelsey, Jane - 2010

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Issues and Prospects on the Movement of Natural Persons and Human Capital Development in the Philippine-American Economic Relations

Tullao, Tereso S.; Cortez, Michael Angelo A. - 2006

The United States of America is the top trading partner of the Philippines and also the top destination of highly skilled and professional Filipino workers. This paper explores the possibility of a free trade agreement (FTA) that covers the asymmetries of the two countries in labor, services and...

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